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Show E00IE R1CKENDACHER IN PARIS HOSPITAL Lieutenant Eddie V. Rickenbacher downed ten rlanes before any of the German aviators were able to Injure him. Famed first as an automobile racer, he next came into the public eye as General Pershing's official chauffeur, when the American leader first landed In France. Then he went into the American aviation service and qutckly made a name for himself for his daring work in the air. Even now, with both eardrums split. Rickenbacher is waiting for his chance to ascend for additional victims. How he was injured is not known. The details that are at hand were received re-ceived by Miss Priscllla Dean, a motion picture actress of Loa Angeles. Cal., to whom the aviator 1ms written a cheery letter from a hospital in Paris. The letter says he was hurt in a un back of the t ".erinan lines, as he was "owning his tenth piano. He expects to be back in the fight before two or three weeks have passed. |